PEWTER TANKARD 1 PT NYMPH-FREE ENGRAVING-FREE POST

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PEWTER TANKARD 1 PINT WITH NYMPH HANDLE FREE ENGRAVING IF REQUIRED! IN BLOCK OR SCRIPT PLEASE EMAIL WITH YOUR REQUIREMENT! A History of Pewter The first known record of a pewter article was the discovery of a bottle in an Egyptian tomb believed to date back to l45OBC. It is a flask shaped utensil with hinged lid and two handles, and when analysed was found to be comparable with early 19th century pewter. Pewter was introduced into Britain around the 2nd century A.D. by the Romans but it wasn't until the 13th century that significant production began. By then, pewter was beginning to be widely used for items such as chalices, pilgrim badges and other ecclesiastical items. From the fourteenth century pewter manufacture grew rapidly and almost every market town of any size would have a pewterer in its craft guild. In 1474 the London Pewterers 'purchased' from King Edward IV a royal charter for the legal control of pewter manufacture - the birth of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers, which is still going strong to this day. In these early times pewter contained lead which gave the metal the dark appearance associated with old pieces. Today's lead free pewter is capable of being brightly polished which gives it its long lasting appeal. Further developments took place until, by the seventeenth century there was scarcely a household read more

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